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God, I’ve got to get better at writing concise headlines, because really, that’s the whole story. Here’s the email, and note that the deadline is this Friday:
pandoras collective
The Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival began with an idea to bring together all of the on-going literary events that happen monthly around town and their hosts to showcase to the public what they do. The first year of the festival saw us located on the Georgia Street side of the Art Gallery with one stage, some tented chairs for the audience and lots of information tables. Since that year we have grown into so much more.
Now in our 7th year we would like to continue the tradition of how we began with the idea of honouring significant people within the literary community. We are planning an opening night gala to do just that. (This will be held Friday August 20th the night before the festival. The venue still to be decided)
Pandora’s Collective would like to recognize certain individuals who have had an impact on the literary community over the years. We will be giving out four special achievement awards and would like you to tell us who you think deserves them.
Please send in the names of up to three people or organizations you believe deserve special recognition. Write about three lines telling us why and if possible include their contact information. Please make sure these nominations are from the Greater Vancouver Area.
Some things to consider when thinking about who you would pick.
How does this person help the writing community at large? Are they an organizer of an event, a host who runs a reading series, open mic or festival? Are they an instructor or mentor who have inspired and encouraged you?
Are they someone whose writing you consider to be amazing and which has touched you deeply and affected your own work.
Is this a group or organization which you believe are committed to helping others to excel?
All submissions for consideration should be sent to blnish_pandoras AT yahoo.ca by Friday, February 26th.
Bonnie
Got this in an email from Geist, who must be overcaffeinated, as they emailed me twice today:
Shakespeare has had too much coffee
You’re invited to attend
The Art of the Personal Income Tax Return
WRITERS, ARTISTS and other FREELANCERS!
Join Vancouver’s Poet Laureate, Brad Cran (who is also an accountant), for a 3-hour tour of the personal income tax return.
In this session you will learn how to live the freelance life and still save for the future, as well as:
- * basic accounting lingo
- * the structure of the T1 income tax return
- * what you can write off
- * options for reporting income from grants
- * how to account for income from self-employment
- * to incorporate or not to incorporate
- * the difference between an RRSP and a TFSA
- * how to speak to an accountant, prepare your materials and lower your accounting bill
This workshop is for artists, designers, cultural freelancers and proprietors of small businesses.
Brad Cran is a writer, photographer and long-time contributing editor to Geist. Read his work on geist.com.
Register at this page on Geist.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Listel Hotel
1300 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC
(604) 684‑8461
Workshop fee: $50 (includes a one-year subscription to Geist for yourself or a friend, or to donate to a Canadian public library) and remember, it’s tax deductible!
Who steals my purse steals trash
W2 4 u
Yes, tonight W2 comes alive with more hawt literary action than you’ve seen this side of an Anais Nin concordance. Five bucks gets you in to this funky-bohemian artspace to enjoy shoulder-rubbing proximity to the real writers who are putting Vangroover on the cultural map. Tonight’s lineup features many ex-Duthieites including your host, Sean Cranbury, one of the infamous Cellar Dwellers of the old Hornby and Robson store (where I bought my first edition copy of Neuromancer, sigh, back when it was new).
Duthie Books closed for good on Monday, so if you want to celebrate one of the world’s best bookstores, tonight and our Wake next Monday are pretty much your only chances. But although the store may be gone, the literary tradition continues. Yes, the force is strong with these ones, so catch them now before they’re too famous to return your calls.
The Lineup (full deets on the RealVancouverWritersSeries):
See you there?
Got this from the highly useful Instant Coffee email:
Restore Arts Funding Now
The Gallery Gachet Collective | A COLLECTIVE RESPONSE | FEB 5
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Curated by Lara Fitzgerald | Exhibition runs: 5th – 28th Feb | Opening
Reception: Fri Feb 5th, 7 – 10pm
Dance Party Celebrating the Arts: Sat Feb 13th, 8 – late (With support from
Art Walk 2010 and the Alliance for Arts and Culture)
Exhibition is part of Art Walk 2010, www.artwalkvancouver.ca
Gallery Gachet presents the exhibition A Collective Response, featuring The
Gallery Gachet Collective’s response to the current cultural landscape in
Vancouver. The exhibition showcases each artist’s reaction to the arts
funding cuts through their own art-making practice, celebrating and
reinforcing the importance of art as a critical means for achieving a
healthy and flourishing society.
A Collective Response aims to focus on the critical role of art in society.
In particular as a way of responding to contemporary issues. Vancouver is
currently undergoing a massive upheaval, and these changes affect all its
citizens profoundly. Gallery Gachet’s Collective Membership feels strongly
about the importance of community engagement and asserting a response to
these changes, and they believe that art provides a powerful and
significant channel for dialogue.
Based on the idea of Documenta (an international contemporary art
exhibition held in Kassel, Germany every five years), The Collective will
transform Gallery Gachet into a free speech zone offering both commentary
and critique of issues relevant to art and life in Vancouver at this
specific historical juncture. Thematically, the work addresses the massive
funding cuts that most arts organizations have received in BC, as well as
political priorities and how these precedents impact our cultural climate.
The Gachet Collective believes in the expression of art and culture as a
human right, and as a means for achieving social, cultural and economic
justice.
The link between A Collective Response and Documenta is one of intention
and spirit. Documenta is known as an exhibition that explores the
intersection between contemporary art and the current critical issues of
the time, inviting people from all over the world to convene, assess the
situation, and enact a dialogic process. Documenta began in the early
1950’s, and was developed as a response to the degenerate art politics of
the Third Reich. In contrast to other international exhibitions that
emerged from the World Fair models, the tradition behind Documenta is one
of theoretical grounding, and a sense of urgency in regards to the role and
meaning of art in society. Inclusivity and dissolution of elitism are
founding values of the festival; these beliefs are also woven into the core
of The Collective’s ideology and integral values that are unanimously held
by The Collective.
A Collective Response will feature multidisciplinary works from Gachet’s
twenty-one collective members, and represents not only the distinct
response of each individual member but also the unique energy and drive
behind The Gachet Collective as a whole.
Artists featured: Benitto, Sharon Burns, Sharon Smith, Kara Lee, Stephen
Long, Jay Peachy, Karen Ward, Bernadine Fox, Bruce Ray, Dylan Wolney, Quin
Martins, W.N. (Bill) Pope, Laurie Marshall, Robert Gardiner, Leef Evans,
Diane Thorn, Cherise Clarke, Lisa Walker, Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty, Geoff
Greene and Youngsin Lee.
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